Friendship Bracelet Valentines.

Last Friday Ryan + the boys went up to the church to play a little basketball in the gym. While they were away, Abby and I figured it would be a good time to search online for some valentine inspiration. I'd remembered this post from last year and decided to show it to Abby to see what she thought about it. She loved the idea of making little gifts for her classmates.

In all, Abby and I made 25 friendship bracelets. I helped make the boy bracelets (10) while Abby focused on the 15 girl bracelets. She finished them all in about an hour and a half. A little Friday night and a little Saturday morning + afternoon.

We kept the pattern simple by using a basic braid. Then, we fancied them up a bit with a sweet card + punched holes to lace the bracelets through.

What I wouldn't give to see her face as she hands them to each of her friends.

I just might sneak in to their little party...

POST EDIT: After receiving a lot of emails from you dears, I'm now offering a printable PDF of the tag I used on Abby's friendship bracelet valentines. Hooray! You can download the file here. Enjoy!

I came across your blog doing a search for camp crafts. Did you save this on your computer? I would love to use it and change it to say "camp" would knot be the same with out you.I am pretty clueless as far as how to make this stuff.Any tips would be appreciated!

I just found this on Pinterest and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it! My daughter is in 6th grade this year so no V-Day party, but I know she'll want to give her few closest friends a little something. These are perfect....and the little note, totally adorable! And I'm thinking you could easily adapt the saying to include other holidays:

These would make a great B-day party favor and you could just change "class" to "birthday party."

I love this idea! I was just telling my 6 year old I am going to teach her how to make friendship bracelets. Did you use a template for the circle and quote? I'll look for a circle punch, just what my scrapbooking accessory collection needs. : )Thank you!

Hi Dandee, I love this idea. We are so doing this. I need some help though. I went to find the punch and the one I got seems to be a tad small. I believe it is 2in and not 2.5. How did you create the cards so maybe I can replicate only smaller OR do you happen to have a version a bit smaller. I love your ideas!!! It is really great for those of us who love to do but lack the creative thought!!!!

I was wondering the same thing about the pink circle...any chance you happen to have another PDF with a boyish colored circle? My son and I have all the bracelets done just working on tags! Thank you these are GREAT!

Thank you so much! I'm a teacher and I'm going to make these for my class, right away! I just laser printed them in black and white onto cardstock and then I'm painting them with a wash of colour. I'm so glad that I procrastinated on my valentines :)

Thank you so much for being so generous to share this. We moved this year, so my 3rd grade daughter is new to her class (and school). To make matters more difficult, she has a particularly contentious classroom environment. This will go a long way to making the environment better for all the kids! Thanks so much again! Love, Shannon & Brenna Tiger -Mequon, Wisconsin

Thank you so much for posting the pdf for this. I was just trying to make it for my daughter and got frustrated because it was not as cute as yours. So thankful for pinterest and for finding your site. :) THANKS!!!!

I'm unable to print the PDF correctly! It only prints the pink circles, not the words. :( I checked and I have the latest updates for Adobe Reader. I also tried restarting my computer *and* downloading the file again to see if that helped ... I've printed five cardstock pages of just pink circles now. :(